Woe Quotes - Page 22

• The planets environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Environmental, Energy, Planets

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• Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Animal, Judgement, Humanity

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• The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

  Vernon Howard

  Needs, Half, World

  "Esoteric Mind Power". Book by V. A. Howard, 1973.

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• Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others' "fads" through the greed of getting supporters. Your Âtman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of? Wait with patience and love and strength; if helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Mean, Support

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1678, Manonmani Publishers

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• Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

  Robert Burns

  Thrill, Pleasure, Notes

  Robert Burns, P. Austin Nuttall (1866). “The poetical works of Robert Burns”, p.214

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• The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.

  Alfred Bunn

  Grief, Heart, Weight

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• Life protracted is protracted woe.

  Samuel Johnson

  Longevity

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 255

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• To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Forgiveness, Night, Thinking

  "The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley".

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• Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

  John Dryden

  Death, Kind, Shut Up

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.475

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• Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Real, Joy

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• Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

  Andre Gide

  People, Age, Dishes

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.101, Routledge

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• Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe,
  Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine?
  I know thy parentage is base and low:
  Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.

  George Herbert

  Art, Dirty, Men

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• I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.

  Rick Majerus

  Reality, Woe Is Me, Issues

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• She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her, understanding every second and longing to step in. I didn’t even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life’s happiest days.

  Steve Martin

  Air, Voice, Understanding

  Steve Martin (2004). “The pleasure of my company”

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• This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Black, Juliet

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.303

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• A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

  John Heywood

  Care, Fruit, Figs

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• Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.

  Arthur Koestler

  Dust, Woe Unto, History

  ARTHUR KOESTLER (1941). “DARKNESS AT NOON”

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• Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.

  Heinrich Heine

  Song, Littles, My Own

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• The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Pain, Loss, Heaven

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• Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.

  Petrarch

  Heart, Earth, Banquets

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

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• We can never untangle all the woes in other people's lives. We can't produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart.

  Barbara Johnson

  Lonely, Laughter, Heart

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.115, Zondervan

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• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mother, Husband, Character

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Strong, Men, Weak Man

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.2209, Delphi Classics

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• Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.

  Umberto Eco

  Grief, Joy, Feelings

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.458, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Doubt, Discourse

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (2008). “Romeo and Juliet: Parallel Texts of Quarto 1 (1597) and Quarto 2 (1599)”, p.83, Associated University Presse

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